Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Reading for the week ending on Thursday, November 13.
Saints,
Here is the url link to Charles Spurgeon's sermon on the "The Immutability of God." You need to be able to download a pdf file which means that you need Adobe on your computer. If you don't have the ability to dowload the sermon, check out http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html and download Adobe for free.
Read it through and jot down your thoughts so we can chop it up next Solus Christus Hour on Thursday, Novemeber 13.
Here's the sermon... http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols1-3/chs1.pdf
Enjoy...
SOLUS CHRISTUS!!!
Here is the url link to Charles Spurgeon's sermon on the "The Immutability of God." You need to be able to download a pdf file which means that you need Adobe on your computer. If you don't have the ability to dowload the sermon, check out http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html and download Adobe for free.
Read it through and jot down your thoughts so we can chop it up next Solus Christus Hour on Thursday, Novemeber 13.
Here's the sermon... http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols1-3/chs1.pdf
Enjoy...
SOLUS CHRISTUS!!!
How can I witness to a person who thinks the gospel is just my opinion? - By John Piper
I would do my best to direct people first to the Bible and say, "Now whether you believe the Bible or not, you need to know that I'm not making these things up. They are here."
This is why I try to preach in an expository way and point people to the exact words of Scripture: because Scripture is amazing. The Bible has a kind of unique authority. It is a sword that penetrates to the division of soul and spirit, bone and marrow. It's not like John Piper's words. It has its own divine claim.
So I want to direct people to it and say, "OK, in your mind what I'm saying may just be my opinion, but at least see here where I'm getting it from the Bible." And then, secondly, as a stage beneath that I would say, "In order to give the Bible credence I would just invite you to consider the portrait of Jesus as it is laid out in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and the rest of the New Testament. And see whether or not your encounter with Jesus Christ will vindicate him as true and a faithful witness to these things in your life."
But if they won't go there, that is, to look at the Bible and to look at Jesus with me, then all I have left to do for them is to pray for them as they leave.''
"...the most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity. Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of the Deity." - Charles Spurgeon
SOLUS CHRISTUS!!!
This is why I try to preach in an expository way and point people to the exact words of Scripture: because Scripture is amazing. The Bible has a kind of unique authority. It is a sword that penetrates to the division of soul and spirit, bone and marrow. It's not like John Piper's words. It has its own divine claim.
So I want to direct people to it and say, "OK, in your mind what I'm saying may just be my opinion, but at least see here where I'm getting it from the Bible." And then, secondly, as a stage beneath that I would say, "In order to give the Bible credence I would just invite you to consider the portrait of Jesus as it is laid out in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and the rest of the New Testament. And see whether or not your encounter with Jesus Christ will vindicate him as true and a faithful witness to these things in your life."
But if they won't go there, that is, to look at the Bible and to look at Jesus with me, then all I have left to do for them is to pray for them as they leave.''
"...the most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity. Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of the Deity." - Charles Spurgeon
SOLUS CHRISTUS!!!
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